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ALTA Certification Academic Language Therapy

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Instructions:
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1. A step taken by school personnel to determine which students are at risk for not meeting grade level standards.






2. Individual Educational Plan






3. Selective focus on what is important while screening out distractions.






4. Study of how morphemes are combined into words - must include study of base words - roots - and affixes






5. A standardized test designed to efficiently measure the amount of knowledge and/or skill a person has acquired - usually as a result of classroom instruction. Such testing produces a statistical profile used as a measurement to evaluate student learn






6. Four adjacent letters representing one sound (eigh)






7. Words that are able to be broken apart by the position of the vowels and consonants in order to pronounce.






8. Wechsler Individual Achievement Test






9. A single functioning or signaling unit of our word patterns. The separate sound units of spoken words.






10. His research in the field of reading was fundamental to the emergence of today's scientific consensus about what reading is - how it works and what it does for the mind.






11. Phonemic Awareness - Phonics - Vocabulary Development - Reading Fluency - including oral reading skills - Reading Comprehension Strategies






12. Study of sounds and how the work within their environment






13. National Institute of Child Health and Human Development






14. The process of systematically gathering test scores and related data in order to make judgement about an individuals ability to perform various mental activities involved in the processing - acquisition - retention - conceptualization - and organizat






15. A word to which affixes are added. A base word can stand alone.






16. Provide different ways for kids to take in information or communicate their knowledge back to you. The changes do not alter or lower the standards or expectations of a subject or a test.






17. A class of open speech sounds produced by the easy passage of air through a relatively open vocal tract. A - E - I - O - U






18. The term is also used for the language now called Old English - spoken and written by the ________ and their descendants in much of what is now England and some of southeastern Scotland between at least the mid-5th century and the mid-12th century.






19. 1877 - first to use the term "word-blindness"






20. Three adjacent letters which represent one speech sound (tch)






21. Stress or emphasis on one syllable in a word or on one or more words in a phrase or sentence. The accented part is spoken louder - longer - and/or in a higher tone. The speaker's mouth opens wider while saying an accented syllable.






22. Two adjacent letters repressing a single consonant sound






23. Explicitly teaches strategies and techniques for studying texts and acquiring meaning






24. Is one that provides for translating test scores into a statement about the behavior to be expected of a person with that score or their relationship to a specified subject matter. Most tests and quizzes written by school teachers are criterion-refer






25. Behaving without thinking about possible consequences. May act or speak without first thinking about how their behavior might make other people react of feel






26. Two adjacent letters repressing a single consonant sound






27. 1925 - Coined the term "strephosymbolia" which means twisted symbols; Pathologist - neurologist and psychitrist in the US - studied with Dr. Alzheimer in Germany - work influenced by James Hinshelwood






28. Multiple Viewpoints - Analyze text critically - understand multiple point of view

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29. Expects child to learn reading as "naturally" as speech - Uses child's oral language as content for reading - Uses child's oral language as basis for spelling instruction - Children learn to "read" by reading and re-reading "big books" together with

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30. 1930 - Psychologist and teacher in New York; along with Samuel T. Orton at Columbia University - developed a non-traditional approach to teaching written language skills. Trained one teacher at a time. began working with Sally Childs and trained 50 t






31. A districts dyslexia program is considered part of the basic - required curriculum. Therefore - state compensatory education funds can only be used to provide programs - projects - activities - and materials that supplement that district's regular dy






32. Two vowels standing adjacent in the same syllable whose sounds blend smoothly together in one syllable. There are only four diphthongs in English. These are ou/out - ow/cow - oi/oil - oy - boy






33. A graphic compilation of the performance of an individual on a series of assessments.






34. Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder






35. Are standardized and measure your progress and achievements as a student.






36. 1904 - reported 2 cases of "congenital word blindness" - called for schools to establish procedures for screening as well as appropriate teaching of those that were identified with congenital word-blindness






37. Wide Range Achievement Test






38. Given normal hearing - the ability to understand spoken language in a meaningful way.






39. A term coined by Stanovich to describe a phenomenon observed in findings of cumulative advantage for children who read well and have good vocabulary and cumulative disadvantage for those who have inadequate vocabularies and read less and thus have lo






40. Screening test. Elementary age only. Asks test taker to name the letters of the alphabet






41. The writing system of a language. Correct or standardized spelling according to established usage.






42. The curved diacritical mark above a vowel in a sound picture or phonic/dictionary symbol notation that indicates a short sound in a closed syllable in which at least one consonant comes after the vowel in the same syllable.






43. One of a class of speech sounds in which sound moving through the vocal tract is constricted or obstructed by the lips - tongue or teeth during articulation.






44. Standards of Personal Conduct - Standards of Professional Conduct - Conflict of Interest - Confidentiality






45. Construction and Reconstruction - Construct understanding based on analysis and synthesis.

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46. Given normal vision - the ability to recognize and interpret information taken in with the eye.






47. Effective for special needs - Uses all possible senses - tracing - saying - listening - looking - Typically called VAKT - Visual - Auditory - Kinesthetic - Tactile - Can be used with either Phonics or Whole Language






48. The flat diacritical mark above a vowel in a send picture or phonic/dictionary notation that indicates a long sound.






49. Refers tot he measurement consistency of a test






50. An affix attached to the beginning of a word that changes the meaning of that word.